THE LETTER GIRL

Girls like that marry doctors. Girls like us just drink together for the rest of our lives.

THE BONEYARD BRAWLERS

The Boneyard Brawlers is Paul (stand up drums/vox), Boneyard Brian (upright bass fiddle), and Blondie (guitar)

PLAIN OLE DELICIOUS

Are you Delicious?

Taste the sounds that nourish within. The Delicious is anything BUT plain and maybe a little mature, but not ole! Actually quite NEW. There is not a band like it in the area nor in the world. They are witty, they are daring, they are romantic……they are Delicious. Available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Napster, eMusic, Rhapsody, iLike, Tesco, and playing frequently in the Chicagoland area get a chance to see them LIVE!!

THE TREESHAKERS

The Treeshakers’ sound is rooted in Chicago’s school of Power Pop, in the tradition of Pezband, Cheap Trick, Shoes, and Material Issue. From there, the group branches out and refines their sound, combining it with hard-driven dual-guitars to create what only can be described as Massive Power Pop.

DYLAN DOG

Dylan Dog’s early beginings started with a chance meeting in 2006 of CD Devlin (Lead guitar) and Bill Z (Vokills) through mutual friends. CD a Boston native was studying at Berklee music college where he was mastering his skills on guitar and song writing. Bill at the time was perfecting his dynamic vocal skills by singing in various genres and performing with local metal bands. Bonding over their love of music and horror movies the two quickly became friends.

By 2009, both becoming very frustrated with their current projects and craving something new and fresh, the two began talks of starting a project like no other. They began exchanging music and lyric files online. The result of trading files recorded on Bill’s 8 track and CD’s garage band files were primitive but promising. Seeing the potential in the tracks Bill and CD began serious talks about recording an EP. Dylan Dog was born.

TREVOR MCSPADDEN

Born in Amarillo, Texas, Trevor McSpadden grew up in the country music tradition, his earliest years set to a backdrop of George Jones and Tammy Wynette on the radio and the Nashville Network on the television set. A move to San Marcos at a young age exposed Trevor to the dancehall music of Central Texas. Night after night, Trevor was captivated by the power of a good band moving couples across the hardwood. Enamored with the music, he set out to learn the basics on his grandfather’s Gibson knock-off. Friends soon became bandmates, and Trevor began to cut his teeth as a serious musician, songwriter, and bandleader, touring the roadhouses and nightclubs of the Texas Hill Country.

Trevor thought his move to Chicago in 2005 would mean an end to his honky tonkin’ days, but he was surprised to find the corner bars in the big city not unlike the beer joints in Texas. After rounding up a few dedicated country pickers, it wasn’t long before he started his first Chicago country band, The True Historians. Quickly embraced by the music community, Trevor signed on as vocalist with the Hoyle Brothers in 2008, bringing his own style of country western, rhythm, and roots to a long-standing and beloved Chicago institution.

Trevor’s years in Chicago have seen him thrive as a singer-songwriter and emerge as a mainstay of local country & western music. With scores of original songs and a cast of superb musicians, Trevor has set out to bring audiences across the country an evening of compelling entertainment tuned to beautiful music. It is the need to play and share the music — its rhythm, its soul, its deep-rooted historical resonance — that calls Trevor to the stage. It is the beauty of an open dance floor filling with couples that keeps him there, night after night.

THE SCREAMIN’ END

Recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, Krazy Eddie and The Screamin’ End came back to their sweet home Chicago to bring YOU that Juke Joint sound! From the roots of rock, to rockabilly and jumpin blues, you’ll tap your feet and clap your hands – then jump up to dance! From the House of Blues Hotel in Chicago to the Blues in Schools, all events public and private, welcome Krazy Eddie and The Screamin’ End. Book us for a show and/or come to a show and see what you’ve been missing.

IVIVRA MOTIVE

Ivivra Motive began in late 2003 when Jarred Mason( vocals, guitar) moved from the Lake of the Ozarks Missouri to live with his brothers in Chicago. Soon after Jarred and his brother Ryan Mason(lead guitar) began writing songs together. They eventually wrote and recorded 4 albums( 1 live), and an E.P.
In August 2009, Jarred met Steve Taylor(bass, keys) through Steve’s girlfriend. It is here that Ivivra Motive was beginning to take it’s current shape. As the songwriting process continued, Kevin Clark was added as a percussionist. They soon played their first show together, and very quickly added James Lippert on drums.
In early 2010, Ivivra Motive recorded the E.P. Blue Fire. Soon after Kevin Clark left the band due to personal interests. The sound of the band then changed to a more aggressive sound, adding elements of hard rock and blues into their overall picture. They eventually played nearly 20 shows in 2010.
Now, James, Ryan, Steve, and Jarred take the shape of Ivivra Motive, and are currently writing new songs, and gearing up for shows booked in 2011.

THE MIGHTY REGIS

This band of misfits have been bringing their brand of floor-stomping Celtic punk rock to clubs all over California and beyond for the past 4 years. While their sound is rooted in traditional Irish folk, the 7 members of The Mighty Regis inject a variety of influences into their music. Most often likened to The Pogues, who lead singer Franky refers to as “The Old Guard”, TMR also draws inspiration from such bands as The Clash, NOFX, Bad Religion, Johnny Cash, The Bouncing Souls, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Misfits and The Police. It’s members having made ends meet in Hollywood via all manner of artistic endeavors, the entertainment value of their live show pairs perfectly with their tight musicianship.

DJ GENGHIS WON

BAG OF BALLS

THE ANSWER TEAM

ANDY MARCHEL AND THE COCAINE RAINBOW

TJ KONG AND THE ATOMIC BOMB

“TJ Kong (singer/guitarist Dan Bruskewicz) and the rest of the Philly trio seem to play a contemporary-ancient brand of Americana similar to The Band or, at its crankiest extreme, Captain Beefheart. Spend time with crabby epics like “Everyone We Know” or the curtly clever “Helena Handbasket” and you find that TJK&TAB hardly sound American at all. More like avant-garde blues with a dirty Mersey Beat that’d shame the Animals.”

THOSE POOR BASTARDS

The band description is as follows: “Those Poor Bastards play miserable and primitive old-time gothic country music. Lonesome Wyatt (guitar, vocals) and The Minister (banjo, bass, etc.) are both legally certified holiness preachers.

If you’re looking for slick, over-produced, commercial songs, you’d better cover your delicate little ears. Those Poor Bastards play it raw and they play it mean. Be a pal and support independent anti-corporate country music.”
 “Those Poor Bastards are the best Gothic Country I have heard yet to this day. The depressing gloomy vocals coming out of this drifter named Lonesome Wyatt has hints of Marilyn Manson to Nick Cave, Throwrag and maybe even a hint of a demented Adam Ant with a shot of a Pilled Up Johnny Cash… And the Minister is backing up Lonesome Wyatt with a style that is a cross between erie strung out folk music with a creepy blend of The Nightmare Before Christmas!!!!!!!!!”
— Hank III

 

RACHEL BROOKE

She’s quite the paradox: a seasoned songwriter who perfectly embodies the music of the American South but lives in the wilds of Michigan. An artist who grew up performing with parents in the family bluegrass band but spent her teen years raging away in an all-girl punk band. An introvert off stage, whose wall-shaking voice has earned her a place at cutting- edge roots music festivals like Muddy Roots, SXSW, AmerianaFest, Mountain Top, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. An icon of underground country, whose newest critically acclaimed album has been featured in major media outlets like CMT, Parade Magazine, Glide, and Cowboys and Indians, and garnered the attention from Nashville big-wigs. But when you sing this well and play like hell, who do you have to answer to anyways?

DEAD N GONE

FRIEND

THE ULTRASOUNDS

YOUR UNCLES BIG JUNGLE

VOL 4

DIDGY SLACKER

DARK SPECTRUM

BROTHER ALI

I’ve lived and loved the culture of Hip Hop since I was in grade school, 1985. I use to study and memorize the greats like Melle Mell, Slick Rick and Whoodini. When KRS-One, Rakim and Public Enemy came out in the late 80’s it blew my mind. I started writing and recording my own songs in Jr. High. By High School I was battling in cyphers everywhere I went and rockin’ school dances. 

I met the Rhymesayers crew in the late 90’s and learned the next level of DIY music. Ant and I started working together in ’02. We made Shadows On The Sun and I started touring in support of Atmosphere (my label-mates and big brothers).

We toured constantly for the next few years with comrades like Brand Nubian, Immortal Technique and Rakim. The Champion EP dropped in 04 and we kept it moving.

Our last major release was The Undisputed Truth in Spring of ’07. I had a great couple of years because of that record. My crew and I did our first headlining tours in the US, Canada and Australia. I was featured in The Source Magazine’s “Hip Hop Quotable” and Rolling Stone’s “Artist To Watch” columns. I played on TV a few times including Late Night with Conan O’Brien (Mint Condition backed me up for that one). I did a US tour with Rakim and Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan. I was also blessed to tour Europe and Australia several more times with Atmosphere.

This past March we released the final chapter in the Undisputed Truth movement. “The Truth Is Here EP/DVD is a collection of music that ANT and I made during the few precious breaks we had from our tour schedule. The DVD is my sold-out homecoming show from The Undisputed Truth Tour.

Ant and I just released our latest full-length album “Us”. Whereas my last projects have been strictly autobiographical, this album opens the lens to showcase the amazing and sometimes tragic lives of my friends and loved-ones who have shaped me as a man. I hope that by illustrating these stories that are so dear to my heart, I might shed some light on how similar we all really are. Society makes us think we’re in different worlds because of our race, religion, class, sex etc. I tried to make something that shows how alike we really are.

CHASE THIS CITY

THE BEGGARS

Meet the Good Boys of Rock! They’re knocking loudly on your door but they look so cordial. You’ll wanna let them in even though you know they’ll bring the house down. The Beggars can do rowdy, they can do outrageous and they do all the reckless valiant theatrics of everything you thought you loved most about Rock n’ Roll – but the Beggars edge is in their endearment – the swagger of the greats without the sleaze of the stereotype – a pure energy burst from a wholesome (yes, wholesome) love for the legends (and the legacies) of rock.

They cruise with a heavy chugging 70’s fuzz style that loopde-loops up like a rocket of spacier psychedelia, only to parachute down into the eye of the party’s storm, cool as cucumbers with a soulful swagger of jazzy bass and danceable beats, spurred ever forth by crowd-crazy incitements from a quintessential frontman. The Beggars, good boys that they are, understand that rock is equal parts demolition derby as it is vaudeville theatre, let’s have a good time.

They formed in 2003, just north of Detroit, MI, founded by drummer Joe Senac and guitarist Jonny Wilkins, based on a commitment to rock-solid showmanship. Singer (and ProWrestling School drop-out) Steven Tuthill joined in 05, inspired by Wilkins’ and Senac’s spirited show, inspired by seminal soul/blues-influenced rock n roll.

Wilkins and Tuthill kept the band going as various players of comparably blistering talents and styles came, partied, rocked and rolled on their way, off to join bands like The Electric Six, The Sights. Drummer Jim Faulkner continues to hold the beat down while Pookie Grech provides the soulful, psyche-blues bass grooves under Chris Krez’ flavorful guitar firestorms. Wilkins’ wields his wailing ax masterfully under the highflying antics of Tuthill, belting the Beggars’ anthems with breathless enthusiasm.

KEITHEN TERRELL BANKS STORY

MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY

“MMM are inheritors of postpunk who don’t pander to its legacy, they extend it”-WebInFront.net

BURLESQUE- SCARLETTE & THE DEVILETTES

DATING GAME HOSTED BY COLDCOCK JONES

MIKE GALLAGHER AND ZZAJE

APPLES FOR ARCHERS

THE MINOR LEAGUE

Kosha Dillz

KOSHA DILLZ

Kosha Dillz is a world class improv artist that has recieved major attention for his dedication to success. He has played every kind of gig,ranging from shows with Rza of the Wu Tang Clan and Matisyahu, to the Legendary Yo gabba Gabba childrens show. He is most known for his ability to improv in front of thousands of people an rap in hebrew and spanish combined.

Chris Webby

CHRIS WEBBY

Originally from Connecticut, Chris Webby is an American rapper best known for his versatile flow, creative punchlines, pop culture references, and love for cartoons.  He is also the founder of the independent record label, EightyHD Music.

Kidd Russell

KIDD RUSSELL

Alternative Hip Hop artist, Backyard Hero, Paying it forward, Never Fade, North Avenue Productions, No Fans Just Neighbors. Pulaskiville, IL. In the studio with Cisco Adler of Shwayze. Rocked shows with Shwayze, Modsun, The Flobots, G Easy, Common, The roots, Uncle kracker, The Deans List, Oncue, Rockie Fresh, Chris Webby, AER and more…

ELFAMAIL

WORLD WAR 10,000

Founded in 2011, World War Ten Thousand finds its influences in punk, rock and black metal as well as beer and whiskey. With sonic guitar riffs and driving drum and bass lines, their sound can best be described as skinbeam. The band has played numerous Chicago clubs over the past 10 months.

PIXIES “COME ON PILGRIM”

VIOLENT FEMMES “VIOLENT FEMMES”

Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 1983

THE UNIPHONICS

The Uniphonics have created waves of excitement across the United States since forming out of the Iowa City music scene in 2007. Their jam band approach to hip hop has led them to performances at countless major festivals and venues across the country. They’ve played on bills with some of their biggest influences, including George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Rusted Root, Karl Denson, The Roots, and Primus.

THE ROCK STAR POETRY PROJECT

VO ERA

Recording Artist Vo Era is a very soulful passionate vocalist, musician, and composer……
He was born and raised on Chicago’s South side. He hit the music scene with a song in his heart and a guitar in his hand. With the love and support of his eclectic audience, Vo has performed at venues such as Reggie’s Music Joint, The Wild Hare, Winestyles (SOLO), The Underground Wonder Bar, and many clubs in the Chicago land area. Vo Era’s unique sound fuses poignantly simple lyrics with funky soulful guitar rhythms. He knows how to musically take a common phrase and paint the most colorful and extraordinary picture of life’s most common occurrences. You can identify his acute skill and life experience within his music. He’s currently a New York native and rapidly expanding in the BIG APPLE. So far he’s graced the stage at Sugar Bar, Billie’s Black, and Village Underground. He has a new hot single entitled “Honey” that’s now available in all digital stores. His debut album entitled “Honey” as well will drop August 13,2013. This is only the beginning of Vo’s Era!!

CHEER UP MOON CAT

In Feb. of 2010 we began to play rock ‘n roll music. Since then, we have recorded multiple albums and have played many shows (give or take a few). Our songs range from poppy and melodic to eerie and bluesy. I reckon those feet will be a tappin’

WEYE

FATHOMS

POVERTY HASH

SONIC AVENUES

WASHBACK RAVEN

SUN AND MOON

RABBIT CHILDREN

ZZAJÉ®

SWEET RAY LAUREL

WILSON

OVREVOLT

Ovrevolt (pronounced over-volt) is the culmination of a twenty-plus year songwriting and performing partnership between guitarist John Menich and vocalist Brad Reamer who, in various formations of the band, have performed with such heavies as Ronnie Montrose, James Young (Styx), Anthrax, Randy Jackson (Zebra), and most recently, REO Speedwagon. In its current formation, Ovrevolt is powered by the potent combination of drummer Gary Kouba and bassist Michael Strack, both veterans of the Chicago music scene and accomplished musicians in their own right. Drawing inspiration from their surroundings, Chicago’s Ovrevolt uses the blues as a jumping off point, just as the English architects of rock did forty-some years ago, and meld it with unlikely influences to create something very heavy and unforgettable. Ovrevolt connects the dots between late 60’s English blues, early 70’s hard rock, Middle-Eastern devotional music, and 90’s grunge to form a cohesive sound that isn’t afraid to go off in tangents but never forgets the melody.

WEINLAND

THE REX COMPLEX

Led by accordionist/vocalist Rex Hussmann and drummer Jeremy Gustin, Brooklyn-based The Rex Complex pounds roots ruckus songs into people’s nervous system often resulting in a joyous shock. According to the Boston Phoenix the band “specializes in voodoo psych-blues tantrums (with a smidge of Primus).”

RAILBIRD

Railbird is an experimental pop band from Brooklyn. Their debut album, No One was self-released March 2011.

ARMY OF INFANTS

They’re not an army (there’s only two of them) and they’re not infants (although they are young), but Army of Infants still has a lot going for them — like their bluesy guitar riffs and ’90s-style grunge singing that would make Kurt Cobain put down his needle and take notice.